The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 70
He seemed very poor and wretched, but the queen was glad to see a human being, and asked him whether he knew where she and her little children could get a house over their heads for the night.
Who acts: man, queen · What happens: seem, be, see, ask, know, get · To what, where: human, man, house, heads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 poor | advmod |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wretched | cc |
| 6 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 poor | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 human | det |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 human | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 knew | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | advcl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 get | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 get | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 children | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 children | nmod:poss |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 children | amod |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 she | conj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 get | aux |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 get | obj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 heads | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heads | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 get | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 night | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 night | det |
| 40 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 get | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | man | poor property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the queen | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | a human | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer human=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | get | could | queen | a house | children's heads | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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